What's Happening 

in Grade 3?

What a busy couple of weeks we’ve had at school. It was so great to see so many Mums come to the “Fun with Mum” morning. Then we had Athletics Day, where we competed in different track and field events and scored points for our house colours. Finally, at the Education Expo we were able to show our parents and families the different cultural activities we participate in at school.

Literacy:

We have learnt about the structure and features used in narrative texts. We are now including facts to create factual narratives.  We were fortunate enough again to welcome Stephen Graham back into our classrooms. Stephen Graham is Mackellar's literacy consultant, and the students are always excited to work with him. He began to work with the students to create a factual narrative text. We were pleased to see so much enthusiasm and energy from the students to participate and complete their task. We will continue with factual narratives and look forward to hearing the students’ stories.

Numeracy:

This term, we have been continuing on with our place value unit. We have consolidated our knowledge about renaming, ordering and rounding numbers up to 4 digits. We have been engaging in learning about time by reading the time to the nearest 5 minutes. We have also been learning about how to collect data and how to create that data in a graph. The students are excited to continue on with our mathematical journey!

Inquiry:

This term we have been exploring the history of Australia. We had the opportunity to go to the Melbourne Museum on Friday the 16th of May. We investigated the lives of first Australians and looked at the changes to Australia over time and how these changes occurred. Here are some pictures of their excursion. 

Jaida & Stephanie 

Grade 3 Teachers